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Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States : collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847

by: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

Publication date: 1851

Topics: Indians of North America

Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company (successors to Grigg, Eliot & Co.)

Collection: smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Volume: pt. 4

Item Size: 391.1M

6 v., plates (some folded) : 33 cm

A separate index compiled by Frances S. Nichols, was published by the U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1954

Vols. 5-6 published by Lippincott

a "An impression having been entertained that this work is an issue of the Smithsonian Institution or is sustained in part by its funds, or by its influence; it is proper to observe, that no aid, in either of these respects, is known to have been derived from that Institution; which has, however ... been the medium for distributing a stipulated number of 1st, 2d,and 3 volumes in Great Britain and Europe" (p. 668 of v.4)

V.1 "stereotyped by J. Fagan;" "printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins"--p. 568; v.3 "printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins"--t.p. verso

Each v. has an added engraved t.p

T.p. vignette; deckled edges

Plates primarily drawn by S. Eastman. Other artists include: A. Newsam, Mayer, Alfred Jones, and G. Gibbs. Engravers and lithographers include: Illman & Sons, Robert Hirshelwood, P.S. Duval & Sons, C.E. Wagstaff, J. Andrews, James Smillie, S. Burt, J.C. McRae, Lewis Brantz and W. Williams

Includes bibliographical references and index

extracted picklist 20081216

digitized CHLDP 20170406

Addeddate: 2019-02-28 16:51:19

Associated-names: Jones, Alfred, 1819-1900, ill; Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, ill; Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, ill; Gibbs, George, 1815-1873, ill; Wagstaff, Charles Edward, 1808-1850, engraver; Smillie, James, 1807-1885, engraver; Brantz, Lewis, engraver; McRae, John C., engraver; Williams, W. (Wellington), engraver; Allen, Charles, former owner; Houston, George S., former owner; Edie, J. R. (John Rufus), b. 1870, former owner; Doerner, Julius, former owner; Illman & Sons, engraver; P.S. Duval & Son, engraver; University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library, former owner; Worcester Society of Antiquity (Worcester, Mass.), former owner; Army Medical Library (U.S.), former owner; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs